"Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers."
- from her award-winning book, The Right to Learn

I read this statement on the Standford University webpage about Linda Darling-Hammond and knew I had to share it in a blog post so that I don't lose it. Will the education community ever fully realize that our children's education is dependent on professional educators having the freedom and support to make informed decisions about instruction in their classrooms?
Hope springs eternal..........

Listen to this interview with Linda Darling-Hammond from the PBS series "Only a Teacher." Great stuff!